Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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Soulver 3.11.1
Minor improvements (iPhone & iPad)
- Added a contextual menu (via a long press) on answer tokens to turn them into plain text, or show the line they reference
- When importing Soulver 2 files (.soulver), the file name is no longer automatically inserted as the sheet heading (#) if the file is named Draft or Untitled
- Soulver longer automatically shows the keyboard on iPhone when switching to another sheet (this behavior matches the Notes app)
- Improved the Soulver launch screen
Bug fixes (iPhone & iPad)
- Fixed an issue where some users were not able to get past the launch screen due to iCloud hanging while downloading an existing sheetbook onto your device when requested
- Fixed a crash on iPhone when showing the custom keyboard editor while editing an external sheet (.slvr)
- Fixed an issue where the open sheet URL action was only cosmetically selecting the requested sheet
- Fixed a bug with the "New Sheet" home screen action (on iPad) not working when the app had not yet been launched
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Soulver 3.11
Soulver 3 is now available for iPhone.
Availability & Pricing
- Soulver 3 for iOS is available on the App Store. It's just $14 (or complementary for our Setapp users).
- It's still a one time purchase (separate from Mac & iPad versions), and family sharing is included
- This is the first paid update to Soulver on iOS since the original Soulver for iOS in 2009 (which received more than 10 years of updates & support)
Number pad
- We've designed a wonderful number pad make doing calculations on-the-go fast
- Switch between the system keyboard and the number pad with a conveniently located switch at the bottom of the keyboard
- It comes with a number of accessory keyboards across the top that you can choose from for your particular calculations
- The number pad is supported on all iPhones with a rounded display (all iOS 16 supporting iPhones except the iPhone SE)
- You can disable the number pad in the settings if you require
Additional options on keys via popups
- Many keys have additional options available on a popup menu. Press down on a key for a second to see additional options
- For example, the "0" key offers "k", "M", and "G" number scalars
- For example the "." key offers headings "# " and comment "// " characters. The ABC keyboard will be selected automatically for you to type your heading or comment.
- Hold down on the delete key and slide your finger left to delete the current line or clear the entire sheet
Currency accessory keyboard
- Always shows your home currency & the currency of your current location (based on your timezone, not your GPS location)
- This is helpful for quickly converting back to your home currency when travelling.
Variable accessory keyboard
- Shows any global & local variables in your sheet (this saves you typing out the whole variable name every time you want to reference it).
Custom accessory keyboard
- Design your own custom accessory keyboard with whatever functions & phrases you find yourself using most commonly
Sheet management (iPad & iPhone)
- Compact sheet view mode
- A contextual command to move a sheet into a folder (like the Notes app). Previously only drag-and-drop moving was supported
Lots of other little touches
- Check out the Tips & Tricks to learn about some handy hidden features, including a gesture for answer column resizing, quick subtotal creation, and quickly switching between keyboards
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Soulver 3.10.3
Soulver now requires macOS 12 Monterey or higher
CSS Units
- CSS units (em, rem & px) will now always be formatted without spaces and using a standard US decimal character (.) so they can be immediately pasted into CSS files
Volume units
- Added slightly more accuracy to volume & substance calculations in certain cases
- Rates of liters/meters^2 are now resolved to a unit of meters
Natural language functions
- You can now use "@" as a synonym for "at" in natural language phrases, like in compound interest "$5k after 3 years @ 7.5%" (= ($6,211))
Conditionals
- Support for "if x then…" in addition to if x == true then…", where x is a boolean
- Fixed a bug where natural language functions were not working in the "then" position in conditionals (thanks Ian)
Timezones
- Added timezones for French territories: Mauritius, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, & Guadeloupe
Functions
- Support for specifying the value of a unit using a function, like "sin(30) radians", or "abs(-40) meters"
Line references
- Support for adding a SI scalar to a line reference, for example "[123]k EUR", where [123] is a token reference to a previous line
Specifiers
- Support for "dec" as a shorthand for "decimal", like "0x123 to dec" (thanks Nasco)
Calendar calculations
- The "days left in 2024" function now returns a whole number of days (rather than fractional)
- Support for converting timespans into "months and days"
Localizations
- Diacritics are now ignored in unit and function names in the Spanish localization (use either "días" or "dias" for example) (thanks Carlos)
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where the log() function was not working with hex and binary numbers (thanks Emile)
- Fixed a very obscure bug where Soulver could use excessive CPU in the background when a list of fractions similar to dates was present in a heading comment in a US locale (thanks Jon)
- Fixed a hang when performing lcm with a list of numbers that included 0 (thanks Daniel)
- Fixed a bug where a line reference could lose its referent when deleting multiple lines above its referent's line
- "tonne" now maps to metric ton, rather than short tons.
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Soulver 3.10.2
- Fixed a few bugs that popped up in 3.10.1 (thanks Andre, Rob & Guillermo for the speedy reports)
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Soulver 3.10.1
Pounds & Ounces
- Added support for "pounds & ounces" as a composite result format. This will be the new default for expressions using pounds (lb), such as "13.5 lb" (= 13 lb 8 oz)
- Pounds & ounces conversions can manually be done using the converter "in pounds & ounces" or "in lb oz"
- You can still use "in lb/pounds" to express the result as decimal pounds.
Date & Time Zone Calculations
- Added support for interval calculations involving years and formats like "1953 − today"
- Added support for dates in the format "13 March 23" (Year assumed to be 23 here)
- Added support for time zone calculations in the "time in Copenhagen 3 hours (from now/ago)" format
Timespans
- Support for double unit timespans like "in minutes and seconds", "in hours and minutes" and so on
- Soulver uses timespans more frequently in operations on single quantities of time. For example, "25 min / 12" = (2 min 5 seconds), "1h20m + 45m" = (2 hours 5 mins)
- When "as timespan" is explicitly specified for the result of a date interval calculation, fixed time units are used, not variable ones
- Added "time span" as an alternate expression for "timespan"
Number Formatting
- Numbers in SI notation will now conform to your decimal point settings. Formerly, they were formatted to 3 dp regardless
- Added support for SI symbols (k, M, G) to line references
- Crypto currencies will no longer round to two decimal places by default.
Lists
- Added support for expressions inside parentheses in lists like "max (100 * 2) 50 100" (= 200)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with single letters not acting as custom prefix currency symbols, such as R100 for South African Rand (thanks to Hein)
- Fixed an issue where custom currency symbols were not applied without a further application restart after changing your number format
- Fixed an issue where a single currency symbol in parentheses was interpreted as a comment, such as ($100) (thanks to Andre)
- Fixed an issue where a short month name in parentheses could cause a comment not to be correctly recognised (thanks to Markus & Nigameash).
- Fixed a problem with raising volume units to the power of a third (thanks to Daniel)
- If multiple variables shared the same name, only one was included in the quick total. This issue has now been fixed (thanks TJ)
- Fixed an issue with "February 29" without a year component not being recognized as a valid date (😪, thanks Patrick)
- Fixed an issue with defining the decimal point of several lines with variable dependencies
- Fixed an issue related to a peculiar symbol that could cause the application to crash when pasted (thanks to Jason)
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when executing sinh(10000)
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Soulver 3.10 – Core
List operation improvements
Support for "min", "max", "gcd" and "lcm" on lists of numbers.
For example:
- "min 5, 3, 7" (= 3)
- "max 50, 20, 10" (= 50)
- "gcd 10, 20, 5" (= 5)
- "lcm of 210, 40, 8" (= 840)
Time ago/from now in location
- New "time ago/from now in location" phrase
For example:
- "3 hours ago in London"
- "30 min from now in Sydney"
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Soulver 3.10 – iPad
This update includes a number of improvements to the iPad version, including:
Advanced Weather & AI Assistant
- Support for subscribing to the "AI Assistant, Live Stocks & Weather" subscription
Menu bar improvements
- New sheet button has a contextual menu to create a sheet starting with a heading, or duplicate the existing sheet
- Dedicated import sheets button
Automatic variable renaming
- When you edit a variable name, lines referencing the previous name will be automatically updated to use the new name
- This feature must be enabled in Soulver's Editingsettings
Variable value peeking
- Select a variable in the text area to see its value in the text menu
Contextual actions
- Added contextual actions on answers (to quickly copy results)
- On total (so you can quickly hide it, or switch to average)
Easier subtotal creation
- A blank cell will always be added below your last line. Long press on it and choose "Make Subtotal" to quickly sum up the previous lines
Fonts & font size
- Added support for custom fonts on your device
- Added a mode to use the (adaptive) system font size, rather than an explicit font size
Fill screen with answer
- Long press on an answer and choose "Fill Screen" to fill your display with the answer
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue with Chinese pinyin and other "multi-stage" input methods not working correctly
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Optional Services
Soulver 3.10 – Services (optional)
New data services available, including an AI Assistant (powered by GPT-4) & advanced weather metrics (from Weather)
Providing these services generates ongoing costs for us. We offer them as an optional subscription service to keep Soulver itself a one-time purchase.
Inline AI Assistant (powered by GPT-4)
- Query the AI assistant inline using " = ?"
- For instance, "distance to the moon = ?". After a short delay, the question mark will be replaced by the answer
Advanced Weather Metrics (from Weather)
- 20 additional metrics for weather queries, including humidity, pressure, visibility, UV index, snow & rainfall, wind and more
- See the entire list in the documentation
Availability
- These services are available in the App Store versions (Mac & iPad) as an optional subscription. They are complementary for our Setapp users.
- Subscribers also get access to live & historical stock data(150,000+ stock tickers across 70 exchanges worldwide). "Soulver Stocks" subscribers are automatically migrated to the new subscription at no additional cost until next renewal.
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Soulver 3.9.2
Assertions
- Added an assert() function that you can use to verify an expected variable condition is true
- For example, assert(expenses < $400), if you expect expenses to always be less than $400
- The answer column will show red exclamation marks & the variable value to bring your attention to a line with a failing assertion
Scientific Notation
- Explicitly format answers in scientific notation using "in scientific notation" or "in sci": i.e "10500 in sci" (= 1.05e4)
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause a crash on launch
- Fixed a bug with certain expressions involving a currency conversion followed by a division not working correctly (thanks Anton)
- Fixed a bug where clock times that use dot instead of colon could fail to work correctly in interval calculations (thanks Raphael)
- Fixed a bug that could produce unwanted duplicate lines in a duplicated document (thanks Felipe)
- Fixed an issue with laptimes not summing with unit expressions of time in subtotals (thanks Jasper)
- Multiplying incompatible units now produces an error (thanks Oliver)
- Fixed an issue with the "fraction of x" phrase inside a variable declaration (thanks Max)
- Improved QuickSoulver behaviour across multiple displays (thanks Stefan)
- Numbers with ordinal prefixes (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc) are now ignored as comments, and won't affect results (thanks Frank)
- Logical operators (&& and ||) now have lower precedence than addition and subtraction operators (previously they had the same precedence)
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Soulver 3.9.1
- Restored compatibility with macOS 11 Big Sur by removing reliance on an incompatible 3rd party library
- Reduced the size of the Soulver application by almost 40%
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where a comment consisting of multiple words in parentheses was interfering with previously typed math expressions (thanks Ted)
- Addressed an issue where expressions and answers could be misaligned on launch
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